February  1921 


Marietta  College  Bulletin 


FOUNDERS  DAY 


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Entered  Sept.  22, 1904,  at  Marietta  Ohio,  as  Second-Class  Matter,  under  act  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1894 


MARIETTA  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 

FEBRUARY  14,  1921 


FOUNDERS  DAY 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Marietta  College,  held  September 
2,  1920,  the  suggestion  of  the  president  to  inaugurate  the 
observance  of  Founders  Day  was  ratified  and  the  pres- 
ident and  the  secretary  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
develop  plans  for  the  celebration.  Because  of  the  close 
relationship  in  past  years  between  Williams  College  and 
Marietta,  it  was  decided  to  invite  President  H.  A.  Garfield 
of  Williams  to  give  the  Founders  Day  address,  an  invita- 
tion which  he  promptly  and  cordially  accepted. 

The  weather  on  February  14th  and  15th  could  not 
have  been  more  favorable  for  the  celebration.  During 
both  days  it  was  the  perfection  of  spring  air  and  sunshine. 
The  observance  opened  with  a  reception  to  President  Gar- 
field at  the  president's  residence,  which  about  two  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  attended — made  up  of  the  trustees, 
faculty,  alumni  and  a  number  of  the  long-standing  friends 
of  the  college  outside  these  groups. 

In  the  evening  at  eight  at  the  historic  First  Congre- 
gational Church  were  held  the  formal  Founders  Day  Ex- 
ercises. Mrs.  Bertha  Metcalf  played  an  organ  prelude 
and  then  the  audience  rose  and  sang  the  hymn,  "Our  God, 
Our  Help  in  Ages  Past."  The  Rev.  C.  E.  Dickinson  led 
in  prayer.  It  was  an  interesting  circumstance,  which 
was  recalled  when  he  was  introduced,  that  Dr.  Dickinson 
was  born  only  a  little  more  than  two  months  after  the 
day  the  college  received  its  charter  in  1835. 

Mrs.  Howe,  the  wife  of  the  head  of  the  German 
department,  played  Beethoven's  Romanze  in  F  for  the 
violin,  accompanied  on  the  organ  by  Mrs.  Metcalf.  Then 
President  Parsons  said  a  few  words  introductory  to  the 
presentation  of  President  Garfield.  He  spoke  of  the 
establishment  in  1830  of  the  Institute  of  Education  by 
the  Rev.  Luther  G.  Bingham,  who  associated  with  him  in 
the  second  term  of  the  first  year,  Nelson  Brown,  M.  D.,  a 


graduate  of  Williams.  In  1832  this  institution  assumed 
a  public  character  by  receiving  a  charter  from  the  state. 
Its  name  was  changed  to  The  Marietta  Collegiate  Institute 
and  Western  Seminary  and  it  began  its  work  under  the 
following  board  of  trustees:  John  Cotton,  M.  D.,  Pres- 
ident ;  Douglas  Putnam,  Secretary ;  John  Mills,  Treasurer ; 
Luther  G.  Bingham,  Caleb  Emerson,  Arius  Nye,  Jonas 
Moore,  Anselm  Tupper  Nye  and  John  Crawford.  The 
charter  was  defective  in  that  it  did  not  permit  the  college 
to  give  degrees  and  it  was  revokable  by  the  legislature. 
So  a  new  charter  was  applied  for,  and  on  February  14, 
1835,  it  was  granted  and  the  name  of  the  institution  was 
changed  to  Marietta  College.  The  old  board  of  trustees 
was  continued  in  office. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  when  the  college  re- 
opened in  the  fall  of  1835  for  work  under  the  new  charter, 
its  faculty  consisted  of  four — a  president  who  was  also 
professor  of  moral  and  intellectual  philosophy,  a  professor 
of  Greek  and  Latin,  a  professor  of  mathematics  and  nat- 
ural philosophy,  a  professor  of  rhetoric  and  political 
economy.  In  addition,  there  was  a  principal  of  the  pre- 
paratory department. 

The  president  pointed  out  that  when  the  poet,  Wil- 
liam Cullen  Bryant,  entered  Williams  College  as  a  member 
of  the  Sophomore  Class,  October  9th,  1810,  there  were 
also  four  on  its  faculty:  President  Fitch  who  directed 
the  studies  of  the  Seniors,  Prof.  Chester  Dewey  who  did 
the  same  for  the  Juniors  and  two  recent  graduates  who 
had  charge  of  the  work  of  the  Sophomores  and  Freshmen. 

We  honor  the  founders,  the  president  continued,  by 
paying  tribute  to  their  memory,  by  reciting  their  achieve- 
ments, by  looking  backward  over  the  life  of  the  com- 
munity and  the  college  born  of  their  wisdom  and  self- 
sacrifice.  But  we  honor  them  best  by  reproducing  in  our- 
selves their  spirit.  They  were  pioneers.  They  looked 
forward  not  backward.  We  cannot  be  true  to  them  by 
making  an  idol  of  our  past.  We  can  be  true  to  them  only 
by  making  sure  that  so  far  as  in  us  lies  the  future  shall 
be  better  than  the  past.  There  is  a  noble  forgetting  of 
the  past  even  while  we  remember  it,  and  a  noble  pushing 
forward  to  the  things  that  are  before,  easily  within  our 
reach  if  we  have  the  spirit  of  the  fathers,  their  faith, 
their  vision,  their  undaunted  courage,  their  daring  of  the 
possible  and  the  impossible. 


"It  is  a  matter  of  great  gratification  that  we  can  as 
a  college  express  on  this  our  first  Founders  Day  our  debt 
to  that  New  England  College,  founded  forty-two  years 
before  our  own,  whose  distinguished  president  is  our  guest 
to-night.  Few  here  to-night  realize  that  during  forty-two 
of  the  eighty-six  years  of  the  life  of  the  college,  nearly 
half  of  our  life  history,  it  was  presided  over  by  a  graduate 
of  Williams  College.  Israel  Ward  Andrews  its  third 
president,  graduated  from  Williams  College  in  the  class 
of  1837  and  received  also  the  degrees  of  A.  B.  and  D.  D. 
from  his  Alma  Mater.  His  service  to  Marietta  College 
covered  fifty  years  of  which  he  was  for  thirty  years  the 
president  (1855-1885).  Alfred  Tyler  Perry,  the  sixth 
president,  received  the  same  degrees  from  Williams,  (the 
A.  B.  in  1880)  and  was  president  of  Marietta  College  for 
twelve  years  (1900-1912). 

But  these  two  men  great  as  was  their  work  were  not 
all  of  the  personal  gift  of  Williams  to  Marietta.  Three 
others  of  the  faculty  were  Williams  men : 

Charles  Goddard  Williams  1815 

Addison  Ballard Williams  1814 

Willam  Porter  Williams  1839 

And  six  of  its  trustees  received  degrees  from  Wil- 
liams : 

Henry  Starr  Williams  1804 

Henry  Lawrence  Hitchcock (D.  D.)  Williams  1855 

Theron  Holbrook  Hawkes  Williams  1844 

Robert  Grosvenor  Hutchins Williams  1870 

Washington  Gladden Williams  1859 

William  Edgar  Roe Williams  1878 

"Let  me  say,  Mr.  President,  that  it  has  given  me 
great  personal  satisfaction  to  know  that  the  greatest  of 
the  presidents  of  Marietta  College,  though  he  graduated 
at  Williams  College,  spent  his  freshmen  year  at  my  Alma 
Mater,  Amherst.  He  had  to  drop  out  apparently  to  earn 
enough  money  to  go  on,  and  after  a  year  he  resumed  col- 
lege work  at  Williams. 

"We  welcome  you,  Mr.  President,  to  your  native  state 
which  has  not  forgotten  the  name  and  the  services  here 
and  in  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the  nation,  of  your 
honored  father,  to  this  town  which  is  proud  to  remember 
that  it  is  in  a  real  sense  the  seed  out  of  which  grew  the 
civic  life  of  the  five  great  states  whose  lands  once  formed 
the  Northwest  Territory,  and  to  the  college  in  which  has 

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been  preserved  so  much  of  the  spirit  and  ideals  of  the 
New  England  college  over  which  you  preside. 

"It  gives  me  unusual  pleasure  to  welcome  and  intro- 
duce to  this  audience  President  H.  A.  Garfield  of  Williams 
College,  who  will  deliver  the  first  Founders  Day  address." 

At  the  close  of  Dr.  Garfield's  address  the  benediction 
was  pronounced  by  Rev.  Adolos  Allen,  Williams  1878,  the 
acting  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Mari- 
etta, after  which  Mrs.  Metcalf  played  an  organ  postlude. 


PRESIDENT  GARFIELD'S  ADDRESS 

One  cannot  read  the  history  of  Marietta  without 
appreciating  that  the  College  is  one  of  a  choice  group. 
Marietta  belongs  to  the  pioneer  period  of  one  of  our  great 
states.  The  histories  of  State  and  College  are  interwoven. 
The  colleges  set  up  by  our  forefathers  as  part  and  parcel 
of  the  commonwealths  of  their  founding  may  well  be 
proud  of  their  origins.  Others  may  outgrow  them  in 
numbers,  may  excel  them  in  many  respects,  but  none  can 
take  away  the  peculiar  honor  that  is  theirs.  Yet  it  were 
folly  to  rely  upon  the  reputation  of  the  past.  Rather,  it 
is  incumbent  upon  us  who  share  in  this  heritage  to  meet 
with  zealous  care  the  obligations  resting  upon  us — obliga- 
tions greater  rather  than  less  because  of  the  inherited 
honor. 

Those  of  us  who  are  sons  of  the  Western  Reserve  are 
proud  indeed  of  our  north  country.  But  who  shall  say 
whether  the  vital  stream  that  flowed  through  the  Mohawk 
Valley  and  peopled  the  southern  shores  of  the  Great 
Lakes,  or  the  equally  vital  stream  that  came  up  from  the 
Southeast  through  the  Ohio  Valley,  contributed  the  great- 
er part,  wrought  the  greater  work,  and  left  the  impress 
of  its  character  more  firmly  on  future  generations?  As 
well  question  whether  the  right  hand  or  the  left  hand 
performs  the  greater  part  in  the  task  of  the  woodsman. 
All  honor  to  each.  The  sons  of  the  Western  Reserve  re- 
joice to  honor  the  sons  of  the  Ohio  Company  of  Associ- 
ates, for  we  know  that  we  are  of  one  blood,  nurtured  by 
the  same  mother,  and  moved  by  the  same  high  motives  in 
maintaining  the  institutions  set  up  by  our  forefathers  to 
the  end  that  in  the  latter  as  in  the  former  day  contribu- 
tions may  be  made  to  the  life  of  the  community,  state  and 
nation,  and  through  these  to  the  world. 

But  another  bond  there  is,  which  I  know  you  would 
not  have  me  fail  to  mention,  for  you  yourselves  have  been 
pleased  to  emphasize  its  importance.  One  of  your  own 
historians,  speaking  of  the  early  years  of  Marietta,  said, 
"A  little  later  it  was  the  fortune  of  President  Mark  Hop- 
kins to  make  one  of  the  most  valuable  offerings  to  the 
new  college.  Some  one  in  Marietta  had  written  to  him 
asking  about  a  young  man  who  was  thought  to  be  a  suit- 


able  person  for  tutor  in  the  college.  President  Hopkins 
went  beyond  the  questions  asked  him  and  told  the  inquirer 
of  another  graduate  of  Williams  College  whom  he  especi- 
ally recommended  as  well  fitted  for  the  place.  The  recom- 
mendation was  heeded  by  the  authorities  at  Marietta,  and 
Israel  Ward  Andrews  was  invited  to  come  and  fill  the 
vacancy.  Thus  did  Mark  Hopkins,  by  his  prudence  and 
discernment,  do  more  than  any  other  man  to  plant  a 
Williams  College  on  the  banks  of  the  Ohio."  Thus  spake 
your  historian  of  the  years  between  1835  and  1855  at 
your  seventy-fifth  anniversary. 

The  influence  of  Dr.  Andrews  upon  Marietta  may  well 
be  likened  to  that  of  Dr.  Mark  Hopkins  upon  Williams. 
Each  completed  a  half  century  of  service  to  his  college. 
Each  was  called  to  the  presidency  after  long  service  as 
professor,  and  each,  retiring  from  the  presidential  office, 
continued  until  the  end  to  be  the  inspiring  philosopher 
and  friend  of  those  who  came  under  his  influence.  They 
belonged  to  a  rare  group  and  they  belonged  to  it  because 
they  were  men  of  rare  spirit — choice  young  men  who  grew 
with  the  years,  constantly  widening  their  spheres  of  in- 
fluence and  leading  countless  men  upward  to  planes  of 
living  which,  without  their  influence,  they  could  hardly 
have  attained. 

And  to  mention  one  other  only,  we  shall  not  soon 
forget  the  latter  contributions  of  Williams  to  Marietta 
in  the  fine,  lovable,  strong  personality  of  Dr.  Alfred  Tyler 
Perry.  He,  like  his  distinguished  predecessor,  sat  at  the 
feet  of  Dr.  Mark  Hopkins,  drew  inspiration  from  his  great 
spirit,  and  power  from  the  exceptional  character  of  his 
teaching. 

I  venture  to  suppose  that  in  celebrating  Founder's 
Day  it  is  less  the  purpose  of  Marietta  to  pay  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  one  man  or  of  the  many  who  have  contributed 
to  the  upbuilding  of  the  college  though  this  indeed  in- 
cluded than  to  turn  our  eyes  to  the  past  for  inspiration 
for  the  future.  The  past  is  secure,  but  the  future  is  in 
our  hands  and  the  responsibility  is  great. 

To  what  end  does  a  college  exist,  if  not  to  prepare 
men  to  promote  the  common  welfare?  That  is  the 
supreme  object  of  education.  I  am  aware  that  some  will 
be  quick  to  interpret  these  words  narrowly,  and  hence  it 
should  be  said  at  the  outset  that  the  common  welfare  is 
best  promoted  when  each  man  contributes  the  best  of 

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which  he  is  capable.  Is  this  too  vague  ?  Then  let  me  be 
specific.  Plato  contributed  to  the  common  welfare  when 
he  brought  his  master  mind  to  bear  upon  the  abstract 
virtues  of  man  and  the  concrete  problems  of  the  state. 
His  great  contribution  made  for  the  welfare  of  Ancient 
Greece  and  of  the  modern  world.  Dante  and  Virgil  and 
Shakespeare  came  by  the  pleasing  paths  of  poetry  and 
great  literature.  Michael  Angelo  saw  with  the  eye  of  an 
artist  and  wrought  with  the  hand  of  a  great  sculptor  and 
painter.  Beethoven  and  Wagner  came  by  another  way, 
bringing  their  gifts  of  music.  By  still  other  ways  came 
men  of  science  and  teachers  of  religion  and  statesmen 
and  inventors  of  new  devices  and  healers  of  old  diseases. 
These  upon  whom  the  seal  of  approval  has  been  placed 
have  invariably  contributed  to  the  common  welfare  of 
community,  of  state,  of  the  world.  This,  and  this  only, 
is  the  final  test.  Let  us,  therefore,  construe  the  words 
in  no  narrow  sense.  There  is  no  gift  however  exceptional 
that  may  not  make  its  contribution. 

But  mark  well  this,  that  unless  the  gift  of  nature  is 
backed  and  reinforced  by  the  motives  and  aspirations 
which,  taken  in  the  aggregate,  compose  the  character  of 
the  man,  it  is  hurtful  rather  than  helpful  to  the  common 
welfare,  and  the  harm  rather  is  in  proportion  to  the  culti- 
vation and  development  of  the  special  gifts.  The  most 
dangerous  man  in  the  wrorld  is  the  gifted  man,  in  what- 
ever field  you  like,  whose  gifts  have  been  cultivated  to 
the  highest  point,  but  whose  character  is  weak  and  whose 
motives  are  bad. 

The  task  of  our  colleges  is  above  all  so  to  train  the  mind, 
the  emotions,  the  intellectual  and  physical  powers  of  man 
that  the  foundations  of  character  are  strengthened,  while 
pursuing  the  difficult  task  of  discovering  aptitudes  and 
powers  of  greatest  promise  and  setting  the  feet  of  men 
in  the  way  by  which  the  best  progress  of  each  man  will 
be  made.  The  graduate  schools  furnish  the  technique. 
To  the  colleges  is  reserved  the  more  difficult  task  of  show- 
ing men  the  relation  between  learning  and  life,  of  estab- 
lishing an  attitude  toward  life  that  grows  out  of  an  appre- 
ciation of  the  best  things,  and  of  an  understanding  and 
well  trained  mind.  The  great  citizen  is  captain  of  his  own 
soul  before  he  is  master  of  his  profession. 

We  perceive  then  that  the  common  welfare  is  pro- 
moted by  the  man  who,  whether  he  be  poet,  or  painter, 

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statesman,  or  captain  of  industry,  is  first  of  all  a  good 
citizen.  At  this  juncture  in  the  world's  progress  we  are 
in  dire  need  of  citizens  of  diverse  gifts  whose  goodness 
exceeds  that  of  the  Scribes  and  Pharisees,  men  who  turn 
the  eyes  outward,  not  inward,  and  lend  a  hand.  And  let 
me  repeat,  the  poet  lends  a  hand  as  much  as  the  captain 
of  industry.  This  needs  emphasis  because  just  now  the 
world  needs  practical  men,  but  it  needs  practical  men 
who  are  also  far-seeing  men. 

The  two  chief  problems  which  must  be  solved,  and 
solved  quickly,  are  the  relations  of  men  to  one  another  in 
industrial  life  at  home  and  the  relations  of  nations  to  one 
another.  I  am  persuaded  that  the  same  great  underly- 
ing principle  should  be  applied  in  each  case.  From  what- 
ever direction  it  is  approached,  whether  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  individual,  or  the  industry,  or  the  national 
life,  or  the  life  of  our  sorely  vexed  world,  the  same  simple 
principle  applies.  It  is  expressed  in  different  forms  by 
different  men.  I  have  heard  it  from  the  laborer  in  the 
mines  and  from  the  great  industrial  and  financial  leaders. 
It  is  the  need  of  common  counsel,  of  common  understand- 
ing, of  mutual  appreciation  of  needs,  of  cooperation  in 
securing  them.  As  men  without  shelter,  seeking  to 
escape  the  pitiless  storm,  are  drawn  together  and  for  the 
moment  forgetting  differences  are  united  by  a  common 
purpose,  so  we  are  drawn  together,  seeking  that  which 
does  not  easily  appear.  At  other  times  men  have  spoken 
confidently  of  the  course  to  be  pursued  and  we  with  equal 
confidence  have  followed  them.  But  now  we  know  that 
one  man's  counsel  is  hardly  better  than  another's,  be- 
cause no  man  knows  all  the  factors  of  either  of  these  in- 
tricate problems.  In  times  past  great  leaders  have  sprung 
up;  sometimes  they  have  seized  the  reins  of  power  from 
the  listless  hands  of  a  despairing  people.  But  we  do  not 
propose  that  that  thing  shall  happen.  With  unblanched 
cheek  and  steady  eye  we  dare  to  look  the  situation  in  the 
face,  defying  the  powers  of  selfishness,  seeking  by  com- 
mon counsel  to  solve  our  common  problems. 

Long  ago  I  saw  in  London  a  great  picture  painted 
by  Dore.  The  world  was  depicted:  kings,  princes,  war- 
riors, beggars,  all  humanity  bowed  under  the  weight  of 
world  struggle,  catastrophe,  sickness  and  death;  in  the 
distance  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  bearing  his  cross,  bringing 
light  and  hope  to  the  world.     A  great  light  proceeding 

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from  his  presence  made,  as  it  were,  a  pathway  in  the  midst 
of  the  perishing  masses,  and  they  were  looking  up,  hope 
illuminating  their  expectant  faces.  Christ  the  Savior  of 
the  wrorld,  that  doubtless  was  the  artist's  theme.  But  to 
me  it  spoke  a  deeper  meaning.  It  exemplified  the  second 
great  commandment ;  for  all  men,  whether  kings  or  beg- 
gars, were  sharers  in  the  common  light  and  hope.  The 
common  welfare  is  our  modern  term,  but  the  principle 
was  first  set  forth  by  the  Master  when  he  bade  us  love 
our  neighbors  as  ourselves. 

The  principle  is  clear.  It  is  as  simple  as  the  truth 
itself.  It  is  so  simple  that  we  are  apt  to  overlook  it. 
One  is  reminded  of  the  dictum  with  which  Captain  Bunsby 
invariably  concluded,  "The  bearing  of  this  observation 
lays  in  the  application  of  it."  And  the  captain  added, 
'That  a'n't  no  part  of  my  duty."  But  the  captain  was  an 
illiterate  man  and  it  is  part  of  our  duty  as  college  men  to 
look  to  the  application  of  the  principle.  Our  problem  is 
not  whether  the  principle  of  cooperation  based  on  under- 
standing is  correct,  but  how  and  to  what  extent  this 
principle  may  be  made  to  apply  to  the  complex  life  of 
today. 

No  one  will  deny  that  liberty,  so  far  as  it  exists,  has 
been  achieved  through  conference  and  cooperation,  and 
sometimes  the  cooperation  has  taken  the  form  of  war  and 
bloodshed.  The  barons  at  Runnymede  cooperated  but 
they  were  sure  of  their  ground  because  of  the  conferences 
that  went  before.  There  wras  a  meeting  of  the  minds  of 
all  wThose  interests  were  involved.  The  serfs  and  serv- 
ing men  were  then  only  chattels.  By  conference  and  co- 
operation power  passed  to  the  Lords  from  the  Crown,  and 
later  to  the  Commons,  and  as  the  mass  of  the  people  have 
become  more  and  more  enlightened,  they  have  taken  and 
exercised  the  responsibilities  of  government.  These 
events  are  sufficiently  distant  to  enable  us  to  see  them 
clearly  in  perspective.  But  those  of  the  last  two  decades, 
especially  those  of  the  last  six  years,  are  so  near  as  to  be 
blurred.    We  do  not  yet  perceive  their  relative  positions. 

Let  us  consider  for  a  moment  the  position  of  indus- 
try. When  the  Constitution  was  framed,  most  of  the 
great  enginery  of  our  industrial  life  was  unknown.  Man 
with  his  two  strong  hands  and  stout  heart  devoted  him- 
self to  the  tasks  of  industry.  Man  competed  against  man 
or  at  most  against  partnerships.     Material  to  supply  basic 

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needs — food,  shelter,  clothing — was  near  at  hand,  for  men 
built  their  homes  where  these  things  could  be  secured  by 
the  labor  of  their  hands  and  by  the  simpler  crafts.  Then 
came  the  age  of  machinery.  By  the  middle  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  the  process  had  profoundly  disturbed  the 
economic  life  of  the  country.  The  movement  from  coun- 
try to  city  had  set  in.  The  factory  was  bringing  together 
workers  in  ever  increasing  numbers  and  the  railroads 
accelerated  the  process.  The  city  dweller  and  the  factory 
worker  were  to  an  increasingly  large  extent  dependent 
for  food,  shelter  and  clothing  upon  others.  The  scope  of 
their  employment  was  being  continuously  diminished  and 
the  work  of  their  hands  specialized  until  today  the  laborer 
in  the  factory  and  the  man  in  the  office  each  finds  himself 
in  many  instances  limited  to  a  single  process.  We  have 
made  machines  of  men  and  the  result  is  deadening  to  the 
best  instincts  and  the  highest  aspirations. 

What  is  the  remedy?  Certainly  not  to  destroy 
machinery.  Certainly  not  to  raze  our  cities  and  attempt 
to  repopulate  the  country  districts.  We  cannot  turn  the 
hand  of  time  backward.  As  practical  men  we  must  work 
with  conditions  as  they  are.  But  as  humane,  educated 
men  we  dare  not  rest  content  with  conditions  which  to 
all  practical  purposes  make  machines  of  our  fellow  men 
and  narrow  the  vision  of  us  all.  We  have  specialized  to 
such  an  extent  that  no  one  is  wise  enough  to  say  precisely 
what  ought  to  be  done.  But  this  we  know,  that  unless 
the  principle  of  representation,  which  lies  at  the  founda- 
tion of  our  liberties  is  preserved  and  applied,  we  shall  not 
discover  the  direction  in  which  we  ought  to  move. 

When  the  first  Congress  met  it  was  composed  of  men 
who  represented  every  party  in  interest — the  individual, 
the  group  of  individuals  cqmposing  a  congressional  dis- 
trict, and  the  larger  group  of  individuals  composing  the 
state — and  they  spoke  for  all  the  interests  which  any  of 
them  had.  When  factories  were  set  up  and  railroads 
were  built  and  great  corporations  came  into  existence, 
there  were  added  to  the  list  of  competitors  these  imper- 
sonal giants  of  industry.  The  legislatures  clothed  them 
with  legal  powers  and  the  courts  recognized  their  exist- 
ence. They  became,  and  are,  a  necessary  part  of  our  in- 
dustrial life.  Fuel  and  transportation  then  became  as 
necessary  and  basic  as  food,  shelter  and  clothing. 

And  where  are  these  new  forces  represented  in  our 

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scheme  of  government?  They  were  not  thought  of,  for 
they  did  not  exist,  when  the  Constitution  was  framed. 
When  the  officers  or  agents  of  a  great  corporation — this 
clothed  with  powers  recognized  at  law,  an  industrial  giant 
clothed  with  powers  of  competition  far  beyond  those  of 
the  natural  man — when,  I  say,  the  agents  and  representa- 
tives of  these  legal  persons  approach  the  polls  or  seek  con- 
ference with  our  representatives  in  Congress  or  with  our 
executive  officials  anywhere,  suspicions  are  aroused,  and 
sometimes  not  without  warrant.  No  provision  having 
been  made  for  conference  between  government  officials 
and  the  representatives  of  industry,  extra-legal  ways 
have  been  found  and  resort  to  them  has  all  too  often 
proved  unfortunate  to  the  common  welfare — not  because 
of  dishonest  intention  but  merely  because,  human  nature 
being  what  it  is,  those  who  have  met  in  conference,  con- 
ferring only  with  those  present  and  represented,  forget 
or  take  too  little  thought  of  those  not  present  or  repre- 
sented. 

How  is  the  difficulty  to  be  met?  Not,  certainly,  by 
an  attempt  to  give  representation  in  Congress  to  the  or- 
ganizations of  capital  and  labor  as  such.  Every  college 
graduate  knows  that  the  organizations  are  too  many  and 
the  industrial  life  of  the  country  too  complex  to  yield  sat- 
isfactory results.  Even  if  the  basic  industries  only  were 
represented,  the  public  would  be  placed  at  a  still  further 
disadvantage  by  adding  political  power  to  the  already 
great  economic  privileges  of  these  industrial  giants. 
Moreover  neither  the  public  nor  industry  desires  it.  It 
is,  however,  both  desirable  and  necessary  that  a  free  and 
open  way  should  be  found  by  which  these  interests  and 
the  individuals  involved  can  make  known  their  needs,  and 
by  which  their  activities  may  be  known  to  the  public. 
Most  of  us  deem  it  undesirable  that  government  should 
secure  this  knowledge  and  contact  by  taking  over  and 
operating  industry.  Most  of  us  believe  that  this  would 
do  far  more  harm  than  good,  except  in  the  cases  of  in- 
dustries, such  as  the  waterworks  of  our  great  cities,  that 
have,  so  to  speak,  become  standardized.  In  the  great 
undertakings  still  in  the  making,  those  that  call  upon  the 
ingenuity,  the  inventiveness,  the  capacities  summed  up  in 
the  term  human  initiative — in  these  cases  we  believe  that 
results  best  calculated  to  serve  the  common  welfare  are 
obtained  under  private  ownership  and  control.     But  many 

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of  us  believe  that  aggregations  of  capital  and  of  labor, 
especially  those  engaged  in  the  production  and  distribu- 
tion of  basic  materials  and  commodities  necessary  to  the 
life  of  the  community,  ought  to  be  supervised — not  con- 
trolled, but  supervised  by  the  government,  and  that  this 
supervision  ought  to  be  based  upon  conferences  between 
government  officials,  representing  the  public,  and  the 
representatives  of  capital  and  of  labor  engaged  in  the 
specific  industry  involved,  to  the  end  that  the  gulf  which 
now  separates  government  and  industry  may  be  bridged 
and  that  government,  acting  in  the  interests  of  the  whole 
public,  may  hold  the  balances  even  between  the  consuming 
public,  the  capital  and  the  labor  engaged  in  the  produc- 
tion and  distribution  of  the  commodity. 

In  every  instance  effective  cooperation  is  possible 
only  when  based  upon  conferences  between  representa- 
tives of  all  the  parties  in  interest,  in  the  light  of  facts 
found  by  government  agencies  appointed  to  conduct  con- 
tinuous surveys,  unprejudiced  by  any  duty  to  pass  upon 
the  facts  or  determine  policies  connected  with  them.  Our 
industrial  problem  will  never  be  satisfactorily  considered 
until  we  learn  to  apply  the  principle  of  seeking  the  advice 
of  all  concerned  before  actions  are  taken  affecting  the 
interest  of  any. 

The  same  simple  fundamental  principle  applies  to  in- 
ternational relations.  What  hope  is  there  that  peace  can 
exist  for  any  considerable  period  unless  there  is  common 
counsel  and  unless  out  of  common  counsel  comes  an  under- 
standing of  the  history,  the  traditions,  the  aspirations 
and  the  needs  of  each  sovereign  member  of  the  group? 
Omit  one,  and  the  seeds  of  war  are  sown.  Divide  them 
into  two  or  three  big  groups,  in  such  manner  as  to  deprive 
one  of  them  of  the  opportunity  to  live,  and  civilization 
itself  is  imperiled.  Formerly  we  feared  the  unlimited 
power  of  kings,  today  the  powTer  of  unenlightened  major- 
ities. Kings  sometimes  become  tyrants,  and  majorities 
may  become  mobs.  In  either  case  the  surest  protection 
against  extremes  is  common  counsel  and  the  direct  appeal 
of  man  to  man,  not  conspiracy  and  direct  action^  Com- 
mon counsel  and  direct  appeal  are  born  of  goodwill ;  con- 
spiracy and  direct  action  of  envy,  hatred  and  malice. 

In  all  relations  we  have  thought  too  much  of  powers 
and  too  little  of  influence.  A  man  is  not  made  great  by 
putting  him  in  offices  of  state  or  industry,  and  the  in- 

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fluence  of  a  great  man  does  not  depend  upon  the  power  of 
office.  Righteous  influence  is  from  generation  to  genera- 
tion without  limit,  and  its  surest  medium  is  the  con- 
ference. 

Permit  me  to  take  another  illustration,  one  nearer  to 
the  personal  experience  of  most  of  us  here.  The  common 
welfare  which  comes  closest  to  college  men  is  the  welfare 
of  the  institution  with  which  they  are  immediately  con- 
nected. The  occasion  that  brings  us  together  today,  the 
history  of  Marietta,  its  institutions  and  traditions,  the 
character  and  influence  of  those  who  founded  it,  are 
cherished  by  you  all.  To  the  preservation  and  promotion 
of  these  good  things  many  of  you  are  devoting  your  lives. 
To  what  extent  are  you  indebted  to  the  legal  powers  en- 
trusted to  those  in  authority,  and  to  what  extent  to  the 
daily  contacts,  the  informal  conferences  between  students 
and  the  great  personalities  that  have  dwelt  here?  Far 
be  it  from  me  to  deny  that  there  is  a  place  and  reasonable 
purpose  for  powers  and  authority.  *  'There  is  one  glory 
of  the  moon  and  another  glory  of  the  sun,  and  another 
glory  of  the  stars  and  one  star  differeth  from  another 
star  in  glory."  Organization  is  necessary  and  there  must 
be  captains  of  tens  as  well  as  captains  of  hundreds. 

There  has  been  much  talk  of  late  years  concerning 
the  rights  and  powers  of  trustees,  faculties  and  under- 
graduates, and  many  have  advocated  sharing  powers,  as 
if  this  really  met  the  case.  The  questions  presented  have 
arisen  because,  as  in  the  case  of  industry,  groups  have 
taken  the  place  of  individuals,  and  interests  conflict.  The 
parties  in  interest  at  Marietta,  as  in  every  other  college 
of  the  land,  are  the  alumni,  trustees,  faculty  and  students. 
Each  group  has  proper  functions  of  its  own  and  each  exer- 
cises powers,  some  of  them  set  up  by  laws  and  customs  of 
the  college.  Where  functions  differ,  for  the  most  part  it 
is  better  that  different  agencies  exercise  them.  To  give 
the  faculty  a  minority  representation  in  the  board  or  for 
the  faculty  to  attempt  to  share  its  powers  and  responsi- 
bilities with  the  student  body  would  prove  unsatisfactory 
in  the  end.  The  proposals  are  based  upon  the  mistaken 
assumption  to  which  I  have  referred,  that  legal  power  is 
greater  than  personal  influence  and  common  counsel.  The 
proposal  is  own  cousin  to  the  notion  that  people  can  be 
made  moral  by  legislation.  If  I  may  borrow  an  illustra- 
tion from   applied   science,   we   are   getting   our   wires 

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crossed.  Any  effective  cooperation,  whether  in  college  or 
city  or  state  or  nation  or  of  international  scope,  comes  not 
through  sharing  powers,  but  through  sharing  common 
counsel  based  on  understanding,  and  common  counsel  does 
not  depend  upon  elaborate  machinery  and  legal  powers. 

To  solve  our  problems,  it  is  necessary  only  that  we 
recognize  this  principle  and  bring  together  in  frequent 
meeting  the  representatives  of  all  the  parties  in  interest, 
relying  upon  the  play  of  personality  and  the  influence  of 
the  wiser  men  in  whatever  group  to  analyze  facts,  to 
discover  situations  and  advise  concerning  policies.  In 
other  words,  in  our  colleges  let  the  trustees  continue  to 
exercise  the  powers  that  are  theirs,  and  the  faculty  the 
powers  that  belong  to  them,  and  the  student  body  their 
powers.  Let  us  leave  undisturbed  these  several  powers 
except  inasf ar  as  amendments  from  time  to  time  are  made 
after  conference  between  the  representatives  of  each 
group ;  and,  lest  it  be  thought  that  conferences  should  be 
held  only  to  adjust  differences  as  they  arise,  let  provision 
be  made  for  stated  and  frequent  meetings,  especially  be- 
tween representatives  of  the  faculty  and  the  student 
body,  and  between  the  representatives  of  the  trustees 
and  the  faculty,  to  the  end  that  each  group  may  under- 
stand the  other  and  the  reasons  for  the  powers  exercised 
by  each. 

Have  we  not,  through  our  college  bodies,  all  the  oppor- 
tunity we  need  to  train  citizens  for  citizenship,  even  in 
the  narrower  definition  of  the  term  ?  Not  all  are  endowed 
by  nature  to  be  poets  and  artists  and  men  of  learning  and 
scholarship,  but  each  is  of  necessity  a  citizen  and  each 
can  learn  to  appreciate  the  inestimable  value  of  this  old 
but  new  principle  of  cooperation  through  common  counsel. 

In  bringing  you  greeting  on  this,  your  Founder's 
Day,  I  have  ventured  to  elaborate  this  principle,  applying 
it  by  way  of  illustration  to  the  problems  before  us,  for  it 
seems  to  furnish  a  sufficient  answer  to  the  question,  To 
what  end  do  colleges  exist  ?  The  new  conditions  in  indus- 
try and  in  college  life  are  the  direct  and  inevitable  results 
of  growth  and  it  is  our  duty  as  forward  looking  college 
men  to  find  the  answer.  If  we  have  found  it,  new  paths 
will  open  before  us  wherein  we  may  walk  with  confidence 
inspired  by  a  clear  purpose  and  justified  in  the  execution 
of  the  trust  committed  to  us. 

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THE    ALUMNI    MEETING 

The  Founders  Day  meeting  of  the  alumni  took  place 
at  the  First  Congregational  church  Tuesday  morning, 
February  15th,  at  nine-thirty  o'clock,  with  Tasker  B.  Bos- 
worth,  president  of  the  alumni  association,  in  the  chair. 
Rev.  Willis  L.  Goldsmith  offered  the  invocation. 

The  minutes  of  the  Alumni  Association  were  read 
by  the  secretary,  George  J.  Blazier,  after  which  on 
motion,  Rev.  W.  L.  Goldsmith  and  Rev.  Maurice  Clarke, 
Professor  Howe,  Mr.  Rea  and  Mr.  Phillips  were  elected 
honorary  members  of  the  association. 

Dr.  Edward  S.  Parsons,  president  of  the  college,  then 
gave  a  brief  review  of  the  work  accomplished,  which  was 
of  an  optimistic  character,  and  indicated  the  lines  along 
which  future  success  might  be  assured  for  the  venerable 
institution. 

The  committee  on  the  proposed  alumni  council  made 
its  report,  through  Walter  A.  Windsor,  '10,  and  it  was 
ordered  to  be  published  and  copies  sent  to  the  alumni,  so 
that  action  may  be  taken  at  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni 
next  commencement.  The  feature  of  the  proposed  coun- 
cil is  the  creation  of  a  body  of  workers  to  keep  alumni 
interest  in  the  work  of  the  college  alive  during  the  college 
year,  instead  of  allowing  it  to  center  exclusively  upon  com- 
mencement. 

Miss  Willia  Cotton,  '98,  and  Miss  Rowena  Buell,  ex- 
'98,  then  presented  portraits  of  John  Cotton,  M.  D.,  and 
Anslem  Tupper  Nye,  members  of  first  board  of  trustees 
of  the  college.  Dr.  Cotton  was  the  first  president  of  the 
board.  The  portraits  were  accepted  on  behalf  of  the  col- 
lege by  Professor  Arthur  G.  Beach,  who  spoke  of  the 
accomplishments  of  these  gentlemen. 

Dean  D.  T.  Schoonover  then  made  a  short  address 
dealing  with  a  Latin  oration  delivered  by  Dr.  Cotton  in 
1845  on  the  occasion  of  the  installation  of  the  second 
president  of  Marietta  College. 

The  matters  connected  with  the  raising  of  the  bal- 
ance of  the  85th  anniversary  endowment  fund  next 
claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting.  It  was  reported 
by  C.  A.  Ward  that  of  the  $350,000  to  be  raised  in  order 

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to  insure  the  gift  of  $150,000  additional  from  the  Rocke- 
feller Foundation,  the  sum  of  $277,986.02  had  been 
raised. 

Mr.  W.  W.  Mills  voiced  his  conviction  that  the  bal- 
ance could  be  raised  before  July  first,  which  would  give 
Marietta  College  an  endowment  of  over  a  million  dollars. 

At  the  suggestion  of  Miss  Rowena  Buell,  the  chair 
was  empowered,  on  motion  of  Mr.  S.  J.  Hathaway,  to 
appoint  a  committee  of  ladies  to  assist  the  alumni  author- 
ities in  having  a  larger  alumni  representation  at  the  com- 
mencement exercises.  The  committee  will  be  named 
later. 

At  the  opening  of  the  session  Mr.  T.  B.  Bosworth 
presented  to  the  alumni  association  a  gavel  made  from 
the  wood  taken  from  a  railing  which  formerly  served  in 
the  first  college  building,  later  replaced  by  the  library 
building. 


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PRESIDENT  PARSONS'  ADDRESS 

Marietta  College  —  Today  and  Tomorrow 

The  bulletin  which  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
alumni  a  few  weeks  ago-  reported  the  numbers  in  the 
student  body  in  1918-1919  and  in  1919-1920.  At  the  close 
of  1918-1919  after  the  breaking  up  of  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  there 
were  163  students  (107  men  and  56  women).  Last  year 
there  were  291  (182  men  and  109  women)  of  whom  28 
were  extension  students,  mostly  teachers  from  the  Mari- 
etta schools. 

This  year  up  to  the  present  time  there  have  been 
registered  339  students  of  whom  307  are  in  regular  col- 
lege courses  (206  men  and  101  women)  and  the  rest  ex- 
tension students.  Other  extension  courses  being  organ- 
ized in  Marietta  and  Parkersburg  which  will  bring  the 
total  of  the  student  body  this  year  to  about  380. 

Another  encouraging  fact  is  the  increase  of  income 
from  the  student  body.  The  estimated  probable  income 
from  student  charges  (including  tuition,  laboratory  fees, 
Fayerweather  rents,  etc.)  an  estimate  made  in  June  1920, 
was  $15,700.  There  has  been  collected  thus  far  about 
$21,000  and  there  is  still  more  than  $2000  on  the  books, 
most  of  which  will  be  paid  by  the  end  of  the  semester  but 
some  of  wrhich  will  probably  have  to  go  over  till  fall  as 
the  present  year  has  been  very  difficult  for  students  work- 
ing their  own  way.  The  Fayerweather  rents  have 
amounted  this  year  to  twice  the  estimated  revenue.  The 
hall  has  been  practically  full  all  the  year. 

The  general  life  of  the  institution  is  toning  up.  We 
are  still  feeling  the  effects  of  the  war  period  but  there  has 
been  definite  improvement.  The  students  are  realizing 
that  we  are  expecting  from  them  real  work  and  good 
work  in  their  college  courses  and  that  no  degrees  will  be 
granted  which  have  not  been  earned. 

And  we  are  demanding  honest  work.  Several  stud- 
ents were  asked  to  drop  out  at  the  beginning  of  the  second 
semester  because  they  did  not  come  up  to  this  moral 
standard.  Leadership  which  is  worth  developing  is  fun- 
damentally honest.  Marietta  College  has  no  desire  to 
train  any  other  kind. 

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The  religious  life  of  the  college  is  showing  more 
vitality.  The  Y.  W.  C.  A.  is  developing  under  the  wise 
guidance  of  some  of  the  faculty  ladies.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
moves  more  slowly,  but  it  is  moving.  The  number  of 
young  men  who  are  not  ashamed  to  say  that  they  mean 
business  in  Christian  living  and  service  is  slowly  but 
steadily  increasing. 

There  has  been  an  interesting  development  of  organ- 
izations with  an  intellectual  purpose.  French,  Biology 
and  Mathematical  Clubs  have  been  formed  and  a  Chemical 
Club  is  being  talked  about.  The  Players  Club  has  been 
doing  excellent  work  and  will  present  this  evening  three 
one  act  plays  in  our  improvised  theater  in  Andrews  Hall. 
The  French  Club  will  give  a  French  play  on  the  same 
program. 

We  could  have  thoroughly  effective  musical  organ- 
izations if  we  had  some  one  to  guide  them.  We  have  a 
very  useful  band,  an  orchestra  which  is  rapidly  gaining 
proficiency,  a  string  club  which  only  lacks  a  leader  to  have 
rapid  development.  A  glee  club  could  easily  be  formed 
if  leadership  were  available. 

We  urgently  need  a  professorship  of  music  in  which 
these  interests  could  center.  Is  there  not  some  alumnus 
who  would  be  interested  in  helping  us  secure  this  great 
addition  to  our  college  life? 

This  suggests  the  other  half  of  our  theme  the  Mari- 
etta of  Tomorrow.  There  is  much  to  do  before  we  can 
realize  our  ideal  for  the  institution.  There  are  gaps  in 
our  instruction  line.  There  are  places  along  that  line 
which  must  be  strengthened — it  must  be  extended  also. 

We  must  plan  for  enlarged  work  in  Religious  Educa- 
tion and  English  and  for  a  new  department  of  Business 
Administration  and  the  lifting  of  our  work  in  Physical 
Education  to  a  much  higher  level,  putting  it  where  it  be- 
longs in  the  life  of  the  college  and  where  it  is  being  put- 
in  the  progressive  institutions  of  the  country. 

We  need  several  new  buildings  also,  notably  a  new 
gymnasium.  The  chapel  will  soon  be  outgrown  as  will 
be  also  our  laboratories,  and  we  need  a  social  center  for 
men  and  women. 

We  wish  too  that  we  might  broaden  out  in  our  in- 
tellectual life.  For  example,  the  gift  of  $1,000.00  would 
enable  us  to  send  Mr.  Whipple  and  a  few  students  next 

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summer  to  northern  Colorado  to  study  and  bring  back  to 
us  fossil  remains.  Is  there  not  some  one  who  sees  the 
immense  value  of  such  work  to  science  and  to  the  college 
and  is  willing  to  make  it  possible? 

These  things  I  am  telling  you,  not  to  frighten  you 
with  the  bigness  of  the  task  but  to  make  you  realize  the 
opportunity  which  is  ours.  When  we  realize  how  worth 
while  is  our  task,  we  shall  have  the  courage  and  the  con- 
fidence to  attack  it. 

But  to  do  it  there  must  be  the  carrying  out  of  two 
plans  which  are  only  partly  realized  as  yet.  We  must 
first  complete  an  effective  alumni  organization  which  will 
be  able  to  bring  into  one  working  body  all  the  former 
students  of  the  college,  a  group  of  deeply  interested 
people,  but  unable  now  to  concentrate  their  forces  for  the 
best  accomplishment.  And  second  we  must  complete 
without  delay  the  Eighty-fifth  Anniversary  Fund  which 
still  lacks  about  $75,000,  on  the  raising  of  which  is  de- 
pendent the  gift  of  $150,000  from  the  General  Education 
Board. 

These  two  subjects  will  be  presented  for  your  con- 
sideration later  in  this  meeting. 


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MISS    COTTON'S    ADDRESS    OF   PRESENTATION 

Mr.  President  and  Members  of  the  Alumni  Association: 

In  behalf  of  my  brother,  George  Dexter  Cotton  of 
Stuart,  Nebraska,  and  myself,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure 
to  present  to  Marietta  College  a  portrait  of  our  Grand- 
father, Dr.  John  Cotton,  who  was  the  first  President  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees. 

He  was  the  son  of  Josiah  Cotton  of  Plymouth  and  a 
lineal  descendant  of  John  Cotton,  the  first  minister  of 
Boston  and  one  of  the  founders  of  Harvard  College.  Dr. 
Cotton  was  born  in  1792,  graduated  from  Harvard  in 
1810  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  that  institu- 
tion in  1814. 

He  came  to  Marietta  in  1815  and  for  thirty  years 
was  one  of  the  town's  most  successful  physicians.  He 
often  lectured  in  public  and  tried  in  every  way  to  stimu- 
late the  cause  of  education.  When  Marietta  College  was 
incorporated  in  1832  he  was  one  of  the  original  Trustees, 
and,  as  the  presiding  officer  of  the  Board,  he  had  the 
honor  of  inducting  into  office  the  first  and  second  Presi- 
dents, Dr.  Joel  H.  Linsley  and  Dr.  Henry  Smith,  deliver- 
ing on  the  latter  occasion  an  address  in  Latin. 

Dr.  Cotton  was  a  deacon  in  the  Congregational 
church,  and  was  interested  in  all  municipal  affairs.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  was  chairman  of  the  Whig  Central 
Committee  and  in  1824  was  chosen  representative  in  the 
State  Legislature.  He  was  elected  by  that  body  Associate 
Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  held  this  office 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  suddenly  on  the  second  of 
April,  1847. 

Dr.  Cotton's  three  sons  were  alumni  of  Marietta: 
Dr.  John  T.  Cotton  of  the  first  class  of  1838,  Dr.  Josiah 
Dexter  Cotton  of  the  class  of  1842,  and  Dr.  David  Barnes 
Cotton  of  the  class  of  1853. 


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MISS    BUELL'S    ADDRESS    OF    PRESENTATION 

Mr.  President  and  Members  of  the  Alumni  Association 
of  Marietta  College: 

It  is  a  double  honour  to  present  to  Marietta  College 
on  behalf  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Nye  Lovell  and  her  daughter 
Mrs.  Francis  Oldham,  the  portrait  of  Anselm  Tupper 
Nye,  trustee  of  Marietta  College  from  its  chartering  in 
1835  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1881.  A  man  of  pioneer 
stock,  without  education  except  what  he  could  obtain  in 
this  frontier  town,  he  was  typical  of  the  best  spirit  in  a 
remarkable  community.  A  steadfast  worker  for  the 
honour  and  proper  development  of  Marietta,  he  was  ever 
a  loyal  friend  to  Marietta  College. 


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PROFESSOR   BEACH'S   RESPONSE   IN   RECEIVING 
THE  PORTRAITS  FOR  THE   COLLEGE 

I  am  very  glad  to  express  the  appreciation  which  we 
all  feel  of  the  gift  of  the  portraits  of  these  two  distin- 
guished members  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees  of  Mari- 
etta College.  As  I  have  listened  to  the  brief  account  of 
who  and  what  these  men  were,  given  us  in  the  presenta- 
tion addresses  of  the  donors,  I  have  been  moved  with 
renewed  admiration  for  that  whole  body  of  men  who 
made  our  community  and  our  college.  At  a  time  when 
their  entire  energy  might  naturally  have  been  absorbed 
in  the  brute  struggle  for  existance,  in  the  fight  with  nat- 
ure and  the  effort  to  get  together  the  mere  material 
necessities  of  life  in  a  new  country,  these  men  had  the 
courage,  the  sense  of  values,  the  foresight  to  plant  a  col- 
lege for  the  fostering  of  the  humanities.  It  is  amazing 
that  they  should  have  wanted  to  do  it.  It  is  still  more 
amazing  that  they  should  have  succeeded.  The  Memorial 
volume  issued  by  our  Alumni  Association  in  1881  con- 
tains a  discriminating  tribute  to  each  of  these  men  whose 
portraits  have  just  been  unveiled. 

Dr.  John  Cotton  was  a  descendant  of  the  well-known 
Puritan  clergyman,  the  Rev.  John  Cotton  of  Boston. 
Although  he  entered  Harvard  College  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen he  seems  to  have  distinguished  himself  in  "Logic 
and  Metaphysics."  He  kept  alive  his  interest  in  study 
after  he  became  a  physician  in  Marietta  and  combined 
with  a  successful  practice  occasional  lectures  on  astron- 
omy. He  delivered  several  addresses  in  Latin  on  public 
occasions,  including  an  address  in  connection  with  the 
inauguration  of  the  first  president  of  the  college.  He 
even  began  the  study  of  Hebrew  after  he  was  forty  years 
of  age  in  order  that  he  might  read  the  Old  Testament  in 
its  original  language.  President  I.  W.  Andrews  in  his 
inaugural  address,  delivered  in  1855  has  this  to  say  of 
Dr.  Cotton: 

"A  graduate  of  the  oldest  New  England  college,  re- 
taining in  an  unusual  degree  his  fondness  both  for  the 
humanities  of  the  schools  and  for  scientific  investigation, 
familiar  with  scholastic  forms  and  all  the  routines  of 

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academic  life,  it  was  not  strange  that  his  colleagues  should 
elect  John  Cotton  first  president  of  the  board  of  trustees. 
He  knew  well  what  a  college  should  be,  and  he  determined 
that,  so  far  as  his  influence  could  extend,  this  young  in- 
stitution should  be  founded  on  no  factitious  principles, 
should  have  no  ephemeral  life.  Much  do  we  owe  him  for 
his  wise  councils,  for  his  steady,  untiring  fidelity,  for  his 
fervent  supplications  for  the  blessing  of  God  upon  this 
literary  seminary/ 9 

Mr.  Anselm  Tupper  Nye,  a  grandson  of  General 
Benjamin  Tupper  of  Revolutionary  war  fame,  was  born 
in  the  Block  House  of  Campus  Martius.  He  spent  his 
entire  life  in  Marietta  and  was  associated  intimately  with 
every  phase  of  the  life  of  this  community.  He  was  con- 
nected with  the  Bank  of  Marietta,  the  Marietta  Ship  Com- 
pany, the  Bucket  Factory,  the  Nye  Foundry,  and  the 
Hardware  Company  which  also  bore  his  name.  He 
served  his  city  as  Mayor,  Councilman,  and  in  many  other 
ways.  He  was  a  deacon  for  many  years  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  a  trustee  and  loyal  supporter  of 
the  college.  The  writer  of  the  tribute  to  Mr.  Nye  in  the 
Alumni  Memorial  volume  says,  "His  strong  erect  figure 
was  for  an  entire  generation  one  of  the  most  familiar  on 
our  streets,  and  until  the  infirmities  of  age  weighed  upon 
him,  among  the  most  familiar  to  students  and  strangers, 
who  at  Commencement  and  at  other  times  had  occasion 
to  observe  the  substantial  men  who  with  such  constancy 
watched  over  the  interests  of  our  beloved  college.  *  *  * 
His  recollections  of  the  college  as  well  as  his  knowledge 
of  those  generations  of  students  whose  college  career  be- 
longed to  the  period  of  his  active  business  life  was  re- 
markable. *  *  *  He  had  the  strong  features  of  that 
Puritanism  which  was  at  once  so  deeply  religious,  so  solid 
in  the  defence  of  truth,  and  so  chivalrous  in  the  defense 
of  human  freedom." 

We  cannot  be  too  grateful  to  such  men,  as  Dr.  Cotton 
and  Mr.  Nye,  and  their  faces  upon  our  college  walls  will 
serve  to  remind  us  of  the  ideals  which  inspired  the  found- 
ers of  this  institution.  They  were  prophets,  in  a  way, 
all  of  them,  but  I  could  not  help  wondering  as  I  listened  to 
the  brief  but  wholly  adequate  addresses  of  these  ladies, 
whether  these  men,  prophets  though  they  were,  dreamed 
that  some  eighty-five  years  after  the  founding  of  this  col- 
lege a  granddaughter  of  each  would  rise  in  a  public  assem- 

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bly  and  present  his  portrait  to  the  college  in  a  manner  so 
delightful  to  the  listeners.  There  is  a  saying  in  one  of 
the  Psalms  to  the  effect  that  "he  that  sitteth  in  the 
heavens  shall  laugh."  Perhaps  these  gentlemen,  in  the 
lapse  of  years,  have  so  far  outgrown  whatever  was  nar- 
row in  the  vigorous  Puritan  outlook  upon  life  that  they 
will  at  least  look  down  on  this  episode  in  the  history  of 
Marietta  College  with  a  pleased  and  indulgent  smile.  At 
any  rate  we  are  grateful  for  the  life  work  of  these  men, 
and  we  are  grateful  for  those  who  have  today  revived 
for  us  their  memories. 


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PROFESSOR  SCHOONOVER'S  ADDRESS 

The  document  I  hold  in  my  hands  is  an  address  in 
Latin  delivered  by  Dr.  John  Cotton,  at  the  inauguration 
of  the  second  president  of  Marietta  College.  It  is  very 
good  Latin,  especially  when  one  thinks  that  its  author 
was  a  busy  doctor.  In  the  opening  words  he  reminds 
his  hearers  that  ten  years  before  they  had  assembled  to 
inaugurate  the  first  president  of  the  college  and  that  now 
they  were  met  for  a  similar  purpose  to  install  the  second 
president.  Then  the  author  sets  forth  briefly  qualities 
in  his  judgment  essential  for  a  successful  college  presi- 
dent. He  mentions  certain  presidents  of  Harvard,  Yale 
and  Brown  Universities.  Of  some  he  thought  they  were 
remarkably  well  fitted  from  the  scholastic  point  of  view 
but  very  deficient  in  ability  to  mix  with  and  understand 
men  and  especially  the  young. 

In  one  case  he  mentions  one  such  president  who 
among  other  qualities  possessed  that  of  proving  himself 
delightful  at  banquets  and  partaking  of  vino  generoso. 

He  desires  in  a  president  thorough  scholarly  attain- 
ments, sound  Christain  Character,  and  good  common 
sense  in  all  relations  of  life.  His  closing  words  are  spoken 
directly  to  the  new  president  expressing  the  hope  that  his 
tenure  of  office  may  be  one  of  great  success  for  the  college. 


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THE    PROPOSED    AMENDMENT   TO    THE    CONSTI- 
TUTION OF  THE  ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION— TO 
BE  ACTED  UPON  AT  THE  MEETING 
IN  JUNE,   1921 

Article  7B 

ALUMNI   COUNCIL 

(1)  There  is  hereby  created,  under  the  Alumni 
Association,  an  organization  to  be  known  as  the  Alumni 
Council  of  Marietta  College. 

(2)  At  the  meeting  of  the  Association  to  be  held 
Commencement  Week  1921,  the  Association  shall  elect 
fifteen  of  its  members  to  be  members  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  five  for  one  year,  five  for  two  years  and  five  for 
three  years,  and  at  each  annual  meeting  thereafter  shall 
elect  five  of  its  members  to  succeed  the  five  whose  terms 
expire. 

(3)  Not  more  than  two  members  elected  by  the 
Association  shall  be  from  the  same  class,  except  by  unan- 
imous consent  of  the  meeting. 

(4)  The  Council  may  elect  not  to  exceed  ten  other 
members  of  the  Alumni  Association  to  its  membership. 

(5)  The  Council  shall  undertake  such  activities  as 
in  its  opinion  shall  carry  out  the  object  of  the  Alumni 
Association.  It  shall  consider  any  matters  that  may  be 
brought  to  its  attention  by  the  trustees  or  by  the  faculty 
and  when  so  requested,  give  its  opinion  thereon,  and  take 
such  other  action  as  shall  seem  advisable.  It  shall  be  a 
a  special  duty  of  the  Council  to  establish  and  direct  the 
gathering  and  disbursing  of  a  fund  to  be  used  for  the 
general  purposes  of  Marietta  College,  to  be  known  as  the 
General  Alumni  Fund.  Gifts  for  the  benefit  of  Marietta 
College  shall  be  made  out  of  either  the  Principal  or  Income 
of  said  General  Alumni  Fund  when  and  as  directed  by 
the  Council,  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  College.  If  and  when  the  amount  of  the  General 
Alumni  Fund  shall  be  Fifty  Thousand  Dollars  ($50,000) 
or  more,  the  income  therefrom  shall  be  available  for  gen- 

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eral  college  purposes  under  the  unrestricted  control  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  Said  General  Alumni  Fund  shall 
at  all  times  be  kept  separate  from  other  funds  and  re- 
sources of  the  Council.  The  Treasurer  of  Marietta  Col- 
lege shall  be  the  Treasurer  of  the  General  Alumni  Fund. 

(6)  The  officers  of  the  Council  shall  be  a  Chairman, 
a  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer  if  the  Secretary  is  not  elected 
Treasurer.  These  officers  shall  be  elected  annually  by  the 
Council.  The  Secretary  of  the  Council,  who  shall  be  paid 
a  salary  as  determined  by  the  Council,  shall  be  chosen 
and  his  duties  determined  only  after  conferences  with  the 
President  of  the  College. 

(7)  There  shall  be  an  Executive  Committee  of  five 
members  who  shall  be  elected  annually  by  the  Council. 
The  Chairman  of  the  Council  shall  be  ex-officio  a  member 
of  this  committee.  Three  of  the  committee  shall  con- 
stitute a  quorum.  This  committee  shall  appoint  the  mem- 
bers of  all  committees,  prescribe  and  direct  the  work  of 
the  Secretary,  and  transact  the  necessary  business  of  the 
Council  between  meetings.  There  shall  be  such  other 
committees  as  the  Council  or  the  Executive  Committee 
shall  create. 

(8)  There  shall  be  an  annual  meeting  of  the  Council 
held  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  Executive  Committee 
shall  appoint.  Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the 
Executive  Committee.  Notice  of  the  Annual  meeting 
and  of  special  meetings  shall  be  mailed  to  each  member 
at  least  thirty  days  before  such  meetings.  At  the  annual 
meeting  and  at  all  special  meetings  fifteen  (15)  members 
shall  constitute  a  quorum. 


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The  Founders  Day  exercises  concluded  with  a  pre- 
sentation of  four  one  act  plays,  three  by  the  Players  Club 
and  one  by  the  French  Club.  The  former  were  coached 
by  Prof.  Wisdom  and  Mr.  Rea  and  the  latter  by  Prof. 
Wade.  A  miniature  auditorium  had  been  fitted  up  in  the 
rooms  on  the  south  side  of  the  first  floor  of  Andrews  Hall 
which  gave  accomodations  for  an  audience  of  about  one 
hundred  and  fifty  people.  All  the  plays  were  very  well 
presented  and  received  favorable  commendation.  The 
program  was  as  follows: 

THE  TWELVE  POUND  LOOK 

A  one-act  comedy  by  J.  M.  Barrie 

Characters 

Mr.  Sims,  soon  to  become  Sir  Henry Wayne  Jordan 

Mrs.  Sims,  soon  to  become  Lady  Sims Mabel  Bode 

Kate,  a  typist - Stella  Pope 

Tombes,  a  butler ■_ Raymond  Rubrake 

Scene:     The  Sims  Living  Room. 
Time :     Afternoon. 


LES  DEUX  SOURDS 

A  comedy  in  French  by  Jules  Moinaux 

Les  Personnages 

Eglantine,  fille  de  Damoiseau Mildred  Ludwig 

Boniface,  servant  de  Damoiseau Charles  F.  Bowles 

Damoiseau,  un  sourd Carlos  B.  Dawes 

Placide,  amant  d'Eglantine Alfred  Strecker 

Un  garde  champetre Leslie  Ward 

Un  jardinier Joseph  Sturgiss 

Le  Scene:     Maison  de  Damoiseau. 
Le  Temps:     Apres  Midi. 

THE  SIMOON 

A  tragedy  in  one  act  by  August  Strindberg 
Characters 

Biskra,  an  Arabian  Maiden „ Helen  Palmer 

Youssef ,  her  lover Erwin  Withers 

Guimard,  lieutenant  of  Zouaves Linfield  Davis 

Scene:  An  Arabian  marabout's  burial  chamber  in  Algiers. 
Time:  The  Present. 

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SUPPRESSED   DESIRES 

A  one-act  comedy  in  two  scenes  by  George  Cram  Cooke 

and  Susan  Glaspell 

Characters 

Stephen  Brewster,  an  architect Philip  L.  Rea 

Henrietta  Brewster,  his  wife Marjorie  Whitaker 

Mabel,  her  sister Betty  Buell 

Scene  I:     Living  room  of  the  Brewsters'  apartments. 
Afternoon. 

Scene  II.     Same  three  weeks  later. 


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MEETING  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

The  mid-winter  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Marietta  College  was  held  at  the  Lafayette  Hotel  at  noon 
on  Tuesday,  February  15th.  There  were  present  the 
president  of  the  board,  Edward  S.  Parsons,  the  secretary 
and  treasurer,  W.  W.  Mills,  John  Mills,  Charles  Penrose, 
Thomas  J.  Summers,  B.  F.  Strecker,  Edward  MacTaggart, 
William  H.  Wolfe,  Parkersburg,  T.  J.  Jones,  Columbus, 
C.  A.  Ward,  Dayton,  Walter  A.  Windsor,  Point  Pleasant. 

It  was  voted  to  raise  the  tuition  at  the  institution 
to  begin  with  the  next  academic  year,  1921-22,  to  a  flat 
charge  of  $100.  The  present  rate  is  $50.00  with  an  addi- 
tion of  $30.00  for  incidental  expenses.  The  actual  in- 
crease is  thus  far  from  $80.00  to  $100.00. 

A  plan  of  annuities  for  the  Executive  Officers  and 
Faculty  of  Marietta  College  was  adopted.  The  Trustees 
of  Marietta  College  will  contribute  toward  purchasing  an 
annuity  in  the  Teachers  Insurance  and  Annuity  Associa- 
tion as  follows: 

1.  For  those  who  are  under  forty-one  years  of  age 
an  annual  amount  equal  to  the  annual  amount  contributed 
by  such  officer  or  teacher  but  not  more  than  five  percent 
of  the  officer's  or  teacher's  salary  nor  more  than  a  total 
of  $250.00  a  year  in  behalf  of  such  officer  or  teacher. 

2.  For  those  who  are  forty-one  years  or  over  when 
they  enter  upon  the  annuity  plan  an  annual  amount  equal 
to  the  annual  amount  contributed  by  such  officer  or 
teacher  provided  that  in  no  case  will  the  trustees  con- 
tribute more  than  one  half  of  the  annual  amount  needed 
to  purchase  an  annuity  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  of  $1500.00 
a  year  nor  more  than  a  total  of  $250.00  a  year  in  behalf 
of  any  officer  or  teacher. 

This  privilege  is  open  to  all  the  executive  officers  and 
members  of  the  faculty  of  the  college  who  have  been  in 
the  teaching  profession  at  least  two  years,  and  who  were 
not  on  Nov.  17,  1915  enrolled  on  the  accepted  list  of  the 
Carnegie  Foundation. 

The  Treasurer  reported  on  the  condition  of  the 
Eighty-fifth  Anniversary  Endowment  Fund.  Up  to  the 
present    time   there    has    been    pledged    to    that    fund 

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$227,986.92  of  which  there  has  already  been  paid  in  cash 
and  securities  the  sum  of  $196,246.53,  a  remarkable 
record.  The  present  endowment  of  the  college  is 
$787,445.03.  It  will  be  necessary  to  raise  between  now 
and  July  first  the  sum  of  approximately  $75,000  in  order 
to  secure  the  $150,000  promised  by  the  General  Education 
Board.  When  this  is  done  about  $225,000  will  be  added 
to  the  endowment  fund  which  will  then  total  approxi- 
mately $1,012,000.00. 

At  the  meeting  $10,000  was  pledged  by  the  members 
of  the  Board  conditioned  on  the  raising  of  the  whole 
$75,000.  The  Treasurer  reported  that  though  the  in- 
come of  the  college  for  the  year  has  been  slightly  in  ex- 
cess thus  far  of  the  expenses,  there  will  probably  be  a 
deficit  at  the  end  of  the  financial  year,  May  31st,  1921, 
of  about  $14,000.  Plans  were  made  for  the  raising  of 
this  deficit. 


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